Thesaurus / woolgathering
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synonyms for woolgathering
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- daydreaming
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- surroundings
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
See also synonyms for: woolgatherings
- bemused
- obsessed
- fascinated
- distracted
- engaged
- forgetful
- engrossed
- absorbed
- absent
- lost
- abstracted
- immersed
- spellbound
- removed
- daydreaming
- absent-minded
- asleep
- deep
- faraway
- heedless
- hung up
- intent
- oblivious
- rapt
- unaware
- distrait
- moony
- mooning
- bugged
- airheaded
- have on the brain
- inconscient
- lost in thought
- spread out
- taken up
- wrapped-up
- any which way
- culpable
- daydreaming
- delinquent
- derelict
- dilatory
- forgetful
- heedless
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- lackadaisical
- lax
- lazy
- neglectful
- negligent
- regardless
- slack
- slapdash
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slothful
- slow
- tardy
- uninterested
- unmindful
- behindhand
- disregardful
- fainéant
- any old way
- asleep at switch
- asleep on job
- defaultant
- abstracted
- astral
- calming
- chimerical
- daydreaming
- excellent
- fanciful
- fantastic
- gentle
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
- intangible
- introspective
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
- mythical
- nightmarish
- otherworldly
- out of this world
- pensive
- phantasmagoric
- preoccupied
- quixotic
- shadowy
- soothing
- speculative
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
- vague
- visionary
- whimsical
- introvertive
- lulling
- phantasmagorical
- relaxing
- inattentive
- distracted
- careless
- sloppy
- unmindful
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- dreamy
- heedless
- lax
- neglectful
- negligent
- oblivious
- preoccupied
- remiss
- slack
- unwitting
- bemused
- moony
- airheaded
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- asleep on the job
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- mooning
- nirvanic
- not on the job
- out of it
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- fantasy
- meditation
- contemplation
- trance
- abstraction
- absorption
- study
- muse
- thought
- detachment
- musing
- dreaming
- inattention
- trip
- preoccupation
- absent-mindedness
- head trip
- pipe dream
- phantasy
- pensiveness
- dreaminess
- castle-building
- castles in the air
- mind trip
- fool's paradise
- aloofness
- distance
- reverie
- coolness
- impartiality
- neutrality
- coldness
- disinterestedness
- nonpartisanship
- objectivity
- indifference
- unconcern
- preoccupation
- brown study
- incuriosity
- dreaminess
- reverie
- pipe dream
- wish
- phantasm
- fancy
- imagination
- musing
- dream
- trip
- vision
- castle in the air
- head trip
- pie in the sky
- imagining
- conceiving
- phantasy
- stargazing
- figment of imagination
- fond hope
- in a zone
- mind trip
- fool's paradise
- neutrality
- objectivity
- indifference
- remoteness
- reverie
- coolness
- impartiality
- coldness
- disinterestedness
- nonpartisanship
- unconcern
- preoccupation
- brown study
- incuriosity
- dreaminess
- contemplate
- ponder
- weigh
- examine
- deliberate
- delay
- consider
- figure
- linger
- study
- moon
- procrastinate
- reflect
- meditate
- chaw
- revolve
- ruminate
- review
- turn over
- woolgather
- brood over
- hammer away at
- muse on
- pore over
- stew over
- sweat over
- think over
- rack one's brains
- consider
- mull
- contemplate
- evaluate
- deliberate
- reflect
- examine
- weigh
- speculate
- brood
- cerebrate
- figure
- daydream
- debate
- study
- mind
- moon
- muse
- excogitate
- revolve
- reason
- meditate
- dwell
- cogitate
- ruminate
- roll
- appraise
- pipe dream
- turn over
- puzzle over
- mull over
- woolgather
- build castles in air
- give thought to
- noodle around
- perpend
- put on thinking cap
- think out
- think over
- hallucinate
- fantasize
- envision
- conceive
- fancy
- moon
- muse
- imagine
- dream
- pipe dream
- woolgather
- stargaze
- build castles in air
- trip out
- hallucinate
- daydream
- envision
- invent
- moon
- romance
- imagine
- head trip
- woolgather
- build castles in air
- live in a dream world
- trip out
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How to use woolgathering in a sentence
Really, God thought with annoyance, this woolgathering—at such a moment!
THE WORSHIPPERSDAMON FRANCIS KNIGHTI trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering.
THE BLACK DOUGLASS. R. CROCKETTBut surely one's mind must be curiously at random to go to such woolgathering.
OLD JUNKH. M. TOMLINSONWoolgathering, Ben had missed some remark about Artemis' rigging.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORNAmid that universal blaze and downright pour of stifling heat, his mind was gone woolgathering back into the old New Forest.
CRADOCK NOWELL, VOL. 3 (OF 3)RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMOREMaster Pennybet, in the common way of tired children, finished the day in listless woolgathering.
TELL ENGLANDERNEST RAYMONDSuch strange alleys do my thoughts run along when I am woolgathering in the field.
TELL ENGLANDERNEST RAYMONDMrs. Ferrall's wits returned nimbly from woolgathering, and she shot a startled, inquiring glance at the girl beside her.
THE FIGHTING CHANCEROBERT W. CHAMBERSIn a woolgathering way, the animal acknowledged Reuben's feet, but had no time for them.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORNWith his wits thus woolgathering as he walked, he one day suddenly tumbled into a pit.
A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE, WITH SELECTIONSISABEL FLORENCE HAPGOODWORDS RELATED TO WOOLGATHERING
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- daydreaming
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- surroundings
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- airheaded
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- asleep on the job
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- dreamy
- heedless
- inattentive
- lax
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- mooning
- moony
- neglectful
- negligent
- nirvanic
- not on the job
- oblivious
- out of it
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remiss
- slack
- sloppy
- unmindful
- unwitting
- woolgathering
- abstracted
- astral
- calming
- chimerical
- daydreaming
- excellent
- fanciful
- fantastic
- gentle
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
- intangible
- introspective
- introvertive
- lulling
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
- mythical
- nightmarish
- otherworldly
- out of this world
- pensive
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- preoccupied
- quixotic
- relaxing
- shadowy
- soothing
- speculative
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
- vague
- visionary
- whimsical
- woolgathering
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